Our Staff and Board
To contact staff or board members, please email:
[email protected].
staff
Nasrullah Amirzai, IT/Web and System Administrator
Jessica Barrera, Digital Publishing Associate
Dani Behonick, Updates Manager
Kate Bobrow-Strain, Director of Finance & Administration
Jenny Chung, Staff Accountant
Alicia Flores, Bilingual Editor
Jade Fong, Development Coordinator
Rosemary Jason, Publications Designer
Tawnia Litwin, Director of Digital Projects
Aditi Malhotra, Writer/Researcher
Kimi Owens, Marketing & Communications Director
Shawn Phillips, Fulfillment & Building Coordinator
Maile Robles, Executive Assistant
Sarah Shannon, Executive Director
Kathleen Tandy, Publications Designer
Amol Ray, Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Paula Worby, Editor, Writer/ Researcher
Board
Nasrullah Amirzai
Staff Representative to the Board
Trupthi Basavaraj, MPH
Independent Consultant, Organization Development Specialist
Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, Secretary
Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network; retired Compliance Safety and Health Officer, Cal/OSHA
Pauline Butcher
Board Member Emeritus
Eva Harris, PhD
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, UC Berkeley; Co-founder and Board President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
Leigh Haynes, JD, LLM, MPH
Lawyer with an expertise in human rights and international law; Adjunct Professor, Simmons University; Executive Committee Chair, Framework Convention on Global Health Alliance; Co-Program Chair, Law Section of APHA.
Samantha Heep, JD, Treasurer
Background in business law and finance having worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, and attorney at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP.
Sarah Jane Holcombe, PhD
Senior Learning Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Larry Kressley, Board Member Emeritus
Former Executive Director, the Public Welfare Foundation
Bill Lankford, PhD, Co-Chair
Founder, The Central American Solar Energy Project (CASEP)
Grace Maher
Associate with the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Program at Vital Strategies; background in small-scale development work in Papua New Guinea
Purnima Mane
Internationally recognized expert on gender and sexual and reproductive health including HIV/AIDS, who has worked in senior positions in both the United Nations (including with UNFPA, UNAIDS, and WHO) and non-profit organizations
Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD, MPH
University of California Presidential Chair and Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, UC Irvine
Shawn Phillips
Staff Representative to the Board
Sarah Shannon (ex officio)
Hesperian Health Guides, Executive Director
Lucia Sayre
Director of Regional Innovation and Community Resilience, Healthy Food in Health Care Program of Healthcare without Harm
Melissa Smith, MD
Associate Director, Center for Gender and Health Justice, University of California Global Health Institute
Linda Spangler, MD, Board Member Emeritus
Physician, Adult Primary Care, Alameda County Medical Center; Medical Director, Options Recovery Services.
Susan Weissert, Co-Chair
Former AIDS Taskforce Coordinator, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Ellen Vor der Brugge, Board Member Emeritus
Long-time trainer of health educators and former Senior Vice President of the Freedom from Hunger Foundation
Prentice Zinn
Director, GMA Foundations